A contingent of girls and women from Tenterfield’s Moombahlene Local Aboriginal Land Council headed down the coast to Lennox Head recently for a weekend to bond and ease the path to womanhood, through the Girl to Woman Festival.
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Chaperone Irene Horn reports that the 10 girls who attended enjoyed the three days away immensely.
“It was an amazing event and weekend of self-growth, bonding, self-awareness and media,” she said, “and growing support and rapport with Aboriginal elders Helen Duroux, Cheryl Duroux and myself.
“The program was so uplifting, for elders and our beautiful and intelligent young ladies.”
The program was so uplifting, for elders and our beautiful and intelligent young ladies.
- Irene Horn
The annual festival offers a busy program of workshops and forums to support and celebrate girls and young women in the community.
Topics were as diverse as being a role model (and what that means in social media and the media in general), using a smart phone to create a video on a similar topic, expression through song and movement, making your own custom scented body cream, professional help with makeup, and a ‘nurturing’ tent staffed with healing practitioners for the chaperones.
Ms Horn hopes that with funding another group of girls could benefit from next year’s festival.
